One of our long-term goals is the study, broadening, and capture of pictorial style for computer depiction. A broader variety of styles is important because some styles are better at conveying various types of information or mood.
In addition, separating style and content allows for higher-level picture manipulation. We also believe that capturing the style of skilled artists can allow unskilled users to recombine elements of a well-refined depiction craft with their content, thereby producing more compelling pictures.
Publications
 | Apparent Ridges for Line Drawing Tilke Judd, Frédo Durand, Edward H. Adelson ACM Transactions on Graphics, 26(3), (Proc.Siggraph), July 2007 |
 | Defining Pictorial Style: Lessons from Linguistics and Computer Graphics John Willats and Frédo Durand Axiomathes, Volume 15, Number 2, 2005 |
 | Density Measure for Line-Drawing Simplification Stéphane Grabli, Frédo Durand, François Sillion Proceedings of Pacific Graphics – 2004 |
 | Programmable Style for NPR Line Drawing Stéphane Grabli, Emmanuel Turquin, Frédo Durand, François Sillion Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2004 (The software is available online) |
 | An Interactive Artificial Ant Approach to Non-Photorealistic Rendering Yann Semet, Una-May O’Reilly, Frédo Durand GECCO’04: Genetic and Evolutionary COmputation Conference |
 | Dynamic Canvas for Non-Photorealistic Walkthroughs Matthieu Cunzi, Joëlle Thollot, Sylvain Paris, Gilles Debunne, Jean-Dominique Gascuel, Frédo Durand Graphics Interface 2003 |
 | An Invitation to Discuss Computer Depiction Frédo Durand ACM/Eurographics Symp. NPAR’02. |
 | Decoupling Strokes and High-Level Attributes for Interactive Traditional Drawing Frédo Durand, Victor Ostromoukhov, Mathieu Miller, François Duranleau, and Julie Dorsey in the Proceedings of the 12th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, June 2001. |
 | The Art and Science of Depiction Frédo Durand Unpublished manuscript, 2000. French version |
Related courses
The Art and Science of Depiction(Spring 2001)
This class explores perceptual and technical aspect of pictures, and more precisely the depiction of reality on a 2D medium. The focus is on an in-breadth multidisciplinary approach.Here are the slides of a talk I gave at the University College of London to outline the class. And here is a more recent version given at Stanford (1 slide per page or 6 slides per page). Here are the slides of a talk I gave at the University College of London to outline the class. And here is a more recent version given at Stanford (1 slide per page or 6 slides per page)
Perceptual and Artistic Principles for Effective Computer Depiction
SIGGRAPH 2002 Course, together with Maneesh Agrawala, Bruce Gooch, Victoria Interrante, Victor Ostromoukhov and Denis Zorin.